Onward to Modi's Ajeya Bharat

Regardless of whether the Modi government has managed the economy well, it has certainly been able to make economic management not such a hot-button issue

“Ajeya Bharat, Atal Bhajapa (Invincible India, steadfast BJP).” That was the battle cry Narendra Modi gave on Sunday at the conclusion of what was effectively a war council meeting of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) preparing for the campaign for mandate in 2019.  The generals and foot-soldiers roared their approval as was expected.  He unveiled a grand vision of India free of communalism, casteism and terrorism, with housing for everyone by 2022, also the target date for doubling farm incomes.  Since the BJP manifesto of 2014 had already promised the end of corruption, vigorous infrastructure spurring an eight per cent